Security Bulletin: Open Source Apache Tomcat vulnerabilities affect IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (CVE-2020-1938)

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities in Open Source Apache Tomcat reported by The Apache Software Foundation affect IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-1938
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a file read/inclusion vulnerability in the AJP connector. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read web application files from a vulnerable server and upload malicious JavaServer Pages (JSP) code within a variety of file types and execute arbitrary code on the system. Note: This vulnerability is known as Ghostcat.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/176562 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Below eFix is prepared on top of the latest 7.3.0.0 (7.3.0.1 - 7.3.0.7 not affected)

efix_tomcat70100_201411291020.zip

| 7.3.0.0 | None | Download eFix

Please get familiar with eFix readme in etc/<efix_name>_readme.txt
Note that the eFix requires manual deletion of the external/apache-tomcat directory.

Workarounds and Mitigations

The above eFix is applicable only to 7.3.0.0 and can be downloaded and applied directly.

Note :

TADDM 7.3.0.1 - 7.3.0.7 are not affected as they use WebSphere Liberty Profile.